You don't have to like the answer, but if Romney doesn't give me a really compelling reason to vote for him, I'll vote Obama again. I would have
gladly voted democrat in 2004, but the party didn't put up a candidate I could get behind, so I voted Bush. It's a matter of the devil you know. And
to borrow a little of the good doctor... Seuss: I can not, I will not, vote for Ron Paul. Not from a plane, or a train; neither here nor there; not
anywhere!

Sometimes, that's just the way it is. Besides, the Congressional elections are of much more importance in my mind.

Don't vote for Romney, because he is a corporate raider, who made his fortune gutting
American companies. It is the exact financial model that has hurt America in recent years.
Putting all your hopes in Private Equity is not the way to repair America's woes...
Rich investors don't equate American jobs... There is a correlation, but not to the extent
Romney seems to believe.

Good graph, and it shows the truth to anyone with the wit to understand it... the myth of "Republicans like small gov't" is just that... a myth.
The last Republican president who actually lived by that was Nixon.

To the point of the thread: The main failure of Obama's that bothers me is that he has not been as effective as I would have liked to see in
overcoming the brain-dead Republican opposition to everything he did, without exception and without any recognition of the value of it... "If
Obamer's fer it, we're agin it" pretty well sums up the GOP strategy since 2009.

Obama has done well in working around this traitorous behavior on the part of the GOP, just not as well as I would have liked to see.

For example, Romney keeps whining about how the economy should be recovering faster than it is... and I agree. And the reason it is not is simply and
solely due to Republican obstruction, without regard to the cost to the country. # them.

Look at those purdy red numbers Bush spent 5 trillion over 2 terms Obama has spent more than Bush in 1.

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How much (percentagewise) of the debt Obama has incurred was due directly to policys from the previous administration
be it unfunded "stimulus" called the bush tax cuts that the right refuses to give up
or two wars
or the medicade perscription program
or. etc.

if you put a gaping hole in a boat, then jump ship, you can't then rightfully look back and talk about how there wasn't as much water in the boat
when you jumped out as to how it looked a bit afterward.

These are areas where I fully agree..Obama needed more strength, yet he folded..
That, mixed with the guy before him, a what..couple months before he was walking out of office coming out and saying the economy is broke...oops...we
are all screwed..well, good luck everyone.
Perfect poop storm.
I remember Rush Limbaugh said on his program before the elections were even sort of kind of over that the Obama recession was in full swing (even
though it was going on for about 9 months by that point)..because they suspected a democrat would be in the white house...so the economy crashed and
burned.

I call bull----. but yes, Obama should have stood up stronger to the right wing demanding we keep tossing money in the fire and keep the GWB stimulus
tax cuts in place forever.

In his second term, he will...no more kowtowing to them..no more re-election to consider, no more Mr. Bipartisan to tote around...time to change
things and sort this mess out once and for all (hopefully, else..blah, I just give up on politics and will move to Denmark)

How much (percentagewise) of the debt Obama has incurred was due directly to policys from the previous administration be it unfunded "stimulus"
called the bush tax cuts that the right refuses to give up or two wars or the medicade perscription program or. etc.

I look at numbers percentages are meaningless those Bush tax cuts contrary to liberal myth helped everyone but it was spun like everything else.

Point of fact Tarp was paid back unlike the 6 trillion Obama spent the thing is no one knows where that tarp money is now.

Wars Obama expanded the wars to Pakistan,Yemen,Somalia,Libya,and Uganda Obama could careless about medicaid or medicare since he has put them up on
the chopping blocks a few times already.

if you put a gaping hole in a boat, then jump ship, you can't then rightfully look back and talk about how there wasn't as much water in the boat
when you jumped out as to how it looked a bit afterward.

The gaping hole in the boat is Social Security,Medicare,Medicaid and the Prescription Drug programs that were put in place long before GWB.

Woudla coulda shoulda doesn't matter for 2 years he and the Democrats held all 3 branches and chose to do other things.

In his second term, he will...no more kowtowing to them..no more re-election to consider, no more Mr. Bipartisan to tote around...time to change
things and sort this mess out once and for all (hopefully, else..blah, I just give up on politics and will move to Denmark)

The value of the dollar was more we were not borrowing as much we did not have the social welfare complex to the extent we have now and the monetary
supply is no were near the 10 trilion in circulation as it is now.

The value of the dollar was more we were not borrowing as much we did not have the social welfare complex to the extent we have now and the monetary
supply is no were near the 10 trilion in circulation as it is now.

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